2010Q3 Grant Proposal: Perl 6 Tablets

Perl 6 Tablets

Synopsis

A thematically sorted Perl 6 compendium/lexicon, readable like a in
depth tutorial, but optimized for finding missing bits of information.
Appendices give several angles to search content.

Benefits to Perl 6 Development

Easy accessible perl6docs help people who write software and tests in
perl 6, for newcomer its easier to spark interest and entry the dev
team and it improves the overall appearance "project perl 6". The doc
tool u4x already uses a filtered version of Appendix A from the
Tablets, because its the most complete of its kind.

Deliverables

The tablets started as pages in the TPF wiki some time ago and will
developed there. The layout contains 9 tablets and 5 appendices
(these are almost written). I think, completion of each tablet will
set a milestone.

Project Details

because it's hypertext, it has a range of advantages over books and
other tutorials. you can read it following you interest withou
searching in an index. thatswhy it can also work better as an
lexicon. tutorials also stop mostly at certain depth, because you
can't get all perl 6 in your head at one afternoon. the Tablets are
for nap by nap consumtion and want to go down in depth as far
specifications allow. Yes i have some problems with the english
grammar, due im not a native speaker, but it got better I think and my
continous work as an editor, made me also more professional in that
field as well.

Project Schedule

because I need a lot of time to fiddle out details and have always do
do a lot more in $life, it is realistic to count for one tablet 3
weeks up to 1 month. because I not count tablet 0, 1 and 2, that
means max time of 7 month. I already started, will do it anyway, just
a desperately needed rework of the TPF cought my attention away in
last weeks.

Bio

Herbert Breunung aka lichtkind, active member of german perl community
since 6 years. Because I read myself into Perl 6 since over 3 years,
wrote an 8 part tutorials and 7 articles more about it, I know
something and don't have to start from scratch.

Country of Residence: middle germany, sachsen anhalt

Nationality: german

Amount Requested:

hard to say because i don't see it as an per hour payment, just
something that helps me get more time for it. 120$ for each of the 7
main Tablets you want to support.

Suggestions for Grant Manager:

Would say Allison would be my favorite, but I suppose she is very
busy. Martin Berends would be fine.

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2 Comments

I think Herbert has already showed that he can work quite hard and is very passionate about Perl 6.
I'd like this project to move forward but I'd like to add another objective: to make these tablets available off-line and to have a Perl 5 module that can extract information from these tablets.

In case someone wants to integrate them with Kephra or with that other IDE written in Perl 5, what's its name...